Moriah Ulinskas

I have a great passion for processing unprocessed  and "orphaned" collections. Highlights include: Reading and annotating the J.E. Morrish collection at the Redwood Public Library in support of research towards the publication Citizen Internees: A Second Look at Race and Citizenship in Japanese American Internment Camps. Processing the orphaned collection of Lillie Mae King at the San Francisco Public Library, and working with Tere Romo to process and write the finding aid for her collection at CSU Sacramento. I also produced a photo series with residents of the Leland House in San Francisco, on their experiences with long-term homelessness, and donated the resulting the photos and oral histories to the photo archive at the San Francisco Public Library. 

Since 2016 I have shepherded the photography collection produced by the Oakland Redevelopment Agency through acquisition by the Oakland Public Library. This collection is at the heart of my dissertation research.

Since 2012 I have been an organizing member of the Community Archiving Workshop (CAW). Working with this group of brilliant archivists and the generous collections partners we serve is my absolute favorite thing I do professionally. I served as the project director on the group's IMLS funded "Training of Trainers" project, our NEH funded "Audiovisual Collections Care in Tribal Archives" project, and as the lead on our Mellon funded strategic planning initiative. As a part of CAW I worked on a pan-institutional preservation plan for 13 of the Smithsonian Institution museums and recently collaborated on expanding the WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) Digital Readiness Toolkit to develop new and expanded audiovisual collection resources.

I served as chair of the Diversity Committee for the Association of Moving Image Archivists from 2011 to 2017 and managed the organization's Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship Pilot Program in 2020.